FBI Working Hard to Deport Friends of Ibragim Todashev, The Man They Killed During the Boston Bombing Investigation

This week’s This American Life is an entire hour devoted to investigating the FBI’s killing of Ibragim Todashev along with a companion piece in Boston Magazine. You probably heard about the basics of the Todashev story. Todashev was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers implicated in the Boston Marathon bombings (and the one who was killed when law enforcement tried to capture them), who was being interviewed by the FBI and was then shot multiple times and killed — with a whole variety of conflicting stories coming out soon after as to what he did to lead to his death. One of the key stories was that Todashev had just admitted to participating, with Tsarnaev, in a grisly triple homicide outside of Boston a year and half earlier, and then supposedly lunged at the FBI agents (there were a variety of different reports, each claiming he had some kind of weapon, but each time the report differed on what kind of weapon). But reporter Susan Zalkind, who had been friendly with one of the 3 men killed back in 2011, which Todashev supposedly confessed to taking part in, decided to explore the story more deeply, and found a variety of oddities at every turn, nearly all of which involve strange moves by the FBI

and simultaniously what? quasi-blame the public for questioning “the decision”?

“you questioned our actions so we have to get rid of these associates to prevent a rout” … right … so tactful this “F B I” representative. so full of perspective. oh, there isn’t a representative? back in my day we called that “a cavaliering posse”.

pay no attention to the replicator androids not existing behind the curtain, Santa. they’re a Chinese built American design. fuck your opinions And your votes.

Simon Valentine

rout?

BuzzCoastin

does anyone still think
the homeland alphabet cops (fbi, cia, dea, ss, etc. etc.)
are there to keep aMerkins safe?

Liam_McGonagle

Some people are never happy.

News gets out that you’ve killed someone during a private interview and everyone gets upset. Try to oblige them by covering it up later on and they totally lose their sh*t.

You just can’t win.

Thurlow Weed

This particular comment section could use more memes. Don’t you guys make memes? Come on, they are easy.